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David Herbert Lawrence - 2006 - 394 str.
...therefore called Taffy (David, Welsh Daffyd) and perhaps also because of the character in nursery rhyme: 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;/ Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef (Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, c. 1780) ... cunning (see l. 18), literally 'false';... | |
 | 2007 - 130 str.
...jiggety jog. To market, to market, to buy a hot bun, Home again, home again, market is done Taffy vas a Welshman Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't home; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone.... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2007 - 808 str.
..."Whistle, daughter, whistle; Whistle for a pound." "I cannot whistle, mammy, I cannot make a sound." TAFFY Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not home; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrowbone.... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2008 - 131 str.
...beat the Knave full sore. The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts And vowed he'd steal no more. Taffy Was a Welshman Taffy was a Welshman. Taffy was a thief. Taffy came to my house And stole a cut of beef! I went to Taffys house. Taffy wasn't in. So I stomped on his best hat And poked it with... | |
 | 1914 - 706 str.
...The exact kind has never been as-cer-tained, pro-ba-bly beef. Compare Taffy was a Welshman; Taffy wu a thief; Taffy came to my house And stole a leg of beef. I went to Taffy's house; Taffy was in bed; I took a marrow bone And beat about his head. « To what does " there " refer ? s What is the sig-ni-fi-cance... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1864 - 708 str.
...verses, commencing, 'Taffy,' (a palpable corruption of the honoured name of ' David ' or ' Davy')— •Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house, And stole a leg of beef?' And then the ridiculous assertions that follow, of how the anonymous libeller went to Taffy's house,... | |
 | 1858 - 1016 str.
...wishes to be convinced of this need only walk into a Welsh village, singing the old child-doggerel of " Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef," etc., and, my life on it, he will not leave it without striking proofs of Welsh sensitiveness,... | |
 | 1883 - 704 str.
...them repeat Taffy's name in every line. As a boy this is how I used to hear the lines repeated : — Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef ; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not at home, Taffy came to my house and stole a... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1926 - 352 str.
...Observe that the following lively tale compresses nine sentences into the space of three couplets: Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not home; Taffy came to my house, and stole a marrow-bone;... | |
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TAFFY WAS A WELSHMAN Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of beef. 
